Blimey, I actually did it, huzzah! Thanks to the wonderful Chinwag for letting me use their servers to host.

You can download the report here:
Twitter Survey Report: Feb 2008

Please feel free to send on the report and data, and use it however you wish. All I ask is that you credit me somewhere suitable. Many thanks.

I hope you enjoy it, and here's a sneaky peak:

• People mainly use Twitter mostly to see what their contacts are up to (50.6%).
• Most respondents to this survey are followed by twice the amount of people (101-200 followers) than they follow themselves (51-100 followers).
• You’re most likely to become un-followed if your Tweets aren’t deemed relevant to your followers
• Half the respondents (48.5%) had Twittered drunk…
• … Yet thankfully most people (65.7%) have never regretted a Twitter post

I'm now working on a much better and well thought out Twitter survey, and if you'd like to be involved with that please do let me know by either commenting on this post or emailing me thayer18 at yahoo dot com.

Thanks to everyone who took part, and passed this round their Twitter stream.

UPDATE - Blogs that are talking about the survey

• Chris Reed - Ginger and Proud
  
• Alan Patrick - Broadsight
• Steve Clayton - Geek in Disguise
• BioSensorAB

I'm tracking these via Google Alerts, so if you've done a post and it's not here, just say and I'll add it.  Good to see everyone's views on it :-)

Well blow me - I didn't expect it to be quite so popular!  Which is obviously fantastic news as it means the higher the response, the better the results can be relied on at the end.  So far the survey has had just shy of 200 responses, which is great considering I was expecting maybe 30 or so just from my close community!  It'd be great to get to 300 by Wednesday when I'm closing it off, so I'll be hunting down Twitter forums and the like to post it on today.  Shout if you'd like to suggest anywhere.

I also got lots of feedback, mostly positive but also some negative such as the survey being too short, and the questions not being written in a way the respondent would have liked.  I wanted to quickly address those points - this survey began life as a free Survey Monkey survey, and as such you're only allowed 10 questions, and 100 responses.  Also, I've never done a survey before, so apologies for my lack of knowledge in the area.  It was clear that as soon as it started to gain momentum that I should have paid for the survey in the beginning and also worked with other sources to develop it!

So, I'm going to be doing a follow up survey in the next month, working with Nik Butler aka Loudmouthman and anyone else who would like to contribute.  Paul Walsh also felt he could do a better survey, so hopefully Paul will help me develop this idea some more too, for phase two.  It's great to have an idea and then have the community feedback and want to help develop it further, I'm looking forward to learning.

I've also been asked which client this survey is for, and what the point is.  Well, there's no client involved, I just wanted to get this information to share with the community.  So, you're all my client on this project!  I just felt with so much speculation floating about on how people want to use and receive Tweets, we should add a bit of backrgound to the discussions.

Thanks again to everyone for getting involved and taking part making this a really fun project.  Results will be out by Friday, so stay tuned!

Oh, and if you haven't taken it yet, what are you waiting for? :-)  Take the survey!

Since posting about Twitter etiquette, there's been mixed views coming back to me from the Twitter-o-sphere.  So, I figured, let's put this out to the community at large and find out some facts about how we're all using Twitter.

I'd be super grateful if you could fling this as far and wide as possible, especially on Twitter - I will post all the raw results here in one week, so let's see how far we can get it out there.  The more answers, the better data we can all share.  I'll even do an executive summary for all of you that just want the highlights :-)  Everything that comes from this survey will be free to use by anyone.

So, without further ado - please tell the world - How do you like your Twitter?